Fiery

Thank you. Temperature readings come from Dell SMI sensor, so if you deem they're too high, it may be due to inaccurate readings provided by the BIOS via SMI. As for the Optimus issue, can you please provide more insights? For example, does the issue of "GT540 is going ON,OFF,ON,OFF,ON,OFF" occur only when running from batteries? Or it's a constant issue, regardless of power source?

1) Can you please post a screen shot that shows HD Tune Pro readings and AIDA64 Storage / SMART page side-by-side on the same screen shot? 2) Which SF-2281 based SSD or SSDs have you tested? Thanks, Fiery

1) Do you start AIDA64 at Windows bootup? 2) What motherboard do you have? 3) Are you running Windows 7 64-bit? 4) Do you have any RAID arrays defined? 5) Do you have any external disk drives connected via USB, FireWire or eSATA? Thanks, Fiery

Default setting for AIDA64 automatic updates is update only to stable releases. It means AIDA64 will update itself only cca. 6-8 times a year. By default AIDA64 Business Edition will have the automatic update feature disabled, to avoid issues in enterprise networks. Of course you can override those settings in the Preferences if you want to update to weekly beta releases.

I guess the wrong expansion slots list is for G41T-M v1 board, so we'll have to separate the two board revisions in the AIDA64 motherboard database. Please right-click on the bottom status bar of AIDA64 main window --> Sensor Debug --> ISA Sensor Dump. Copy-paste the full results into this topic. That dump will help us to find out how to distinguish G41T-M v1 and v2 revisions. Thanks, Fiery

We've just released AIDA64 Beta Build 1651. It's available for auto-update, or can be downloaded from: http://www.aida64.com/downloads/aida64extremebuild1651ctmw8qszdnzip It implements the requested new option in AIDA64 / main menu / File / Preferences / General. During the auto-update process AIDA64 will place not only the ZIP package in that folder, but also the changelog in a TXT file. The changlog can also be seen as a list item hint in the NetUpdate window. The hint will appear while you hover the mouse cursor over the bottom part of the window, where AIDA64 lists the available updates with their corresponding version, date and file size info. We've also added more tricks about the auto-update, e.g. from the next update it will pop up a bubble over the System Tray icon after a successful update stating how many new devices have we added to the AIDA64 Hardware Database.

Sounds a bit weird, but I'm glad you managed to resolve it.

It looks like AIDA64 is unable to use its kernel driver. We've completely revamped the kernel driver in Build 1635. It means the current kernel driver cannot be loaded by an old AIDA64 version, and vice versa. Maybe while performing the upgrade you didn't overwrite the old KERNELD.* files with the new ones? Or maybe some other issue occured during the upgrade process. Please try to completely remove any AIDA64 installations you may have on your system, and restart your computer. You can keep your AIDA64.INI files of course, to keep your Preferences settings. Then manually download beta 1649, extract it into an empty folder, enter your license, and check if it works now. Let me know how it goes

1) Exactly which XPS model do you have? 2) Do you have Win7 64-bit installed? 3) Which version of ForceWare driver do you have installed? Thanks, Fiery

Have you tried to restart your computer after upgrading to the new release?

That's normal. SMART data field for temperature values may or may not be a direct temperature readout (in Celsius). For some drives the lowest byte holds the temperature, and the rest of the bytes of the double-word value may hold minimum or maximum values too. In your case the data value is 2C0A0015 in hexadecimal, which would make it hold 3 temperatures: 44 Celsius, 10 Celsius and 21 Celsius. The lowest byte (21 Celsius) should be the current temperature value. Regards, Fiery

1) Are you using AIDA64 v1.85? (latest version) 2) What version of Windows are you running? 32-bit or 64-bit? Thanks, Fiery

I think it is simply a matter of column width. Double-click on the vertical line separating the cell headers for "A" and "B" columns to adjust column "A" width. Do the same with column "B" to adjust its width as well.

AIDA64 has a complex hardware monitoring module that was designed to monitor temperatures, voltages, fan speeds and power draw. It was not intended to be used as a generic monitoring layer to monitor any sorts of system values. Recently we've enhanced it to cover special values like network download and upload rate, but it's still not capable of monitoring any kind of values. BTW, AIDA64 already monitors disk drive temperatures and alerts you when they exceed a preconfigured value. As for HDD health monitoring via SMART... We don't pursue that feature mainly because we don't trust in SMART. Most of the hard disk failures we suffered here in our labs were not predicted by SMART at all. On the other hand, we have a handful of hard disk drives where SMART says there's an imminent failure, but the drives happily continue working fine. There's a single Matrox IDE drive that's been in use for over 10 years already, with over 8 years of SMART predicted failure And it's still working fine today. But in case you want to constantly monitor the SMART values of your drives, and receive an alert when SMART predicts failure, I recommend you to try specialized HDD SMART monitoring applications like HD Sentinel: http://hdsentinel.com/

Make sure to let Franck know about this issue. If he contacts us for assistance, we'll help him to fix CPU-Z.

AIDA64 doesn't expose SMART values currently. We may implement that feature next year. I'm sorry, but we don't work in C#, so we don't have a sample code. Regards, Fiery

I think your motherboard simply doesn't utilize the sensor features of the VT1211 chip, so all readings should be ignored In case you can ask HP directly about that, please let us know if there's a trick we should use in AIDA64 to make the readings work. Regards, Fiery

In case Asus PC Probe II (part of Asus AI Suite 2) reports different values than AIDA64 latest beta (Build 1647), then please create a screen shot that shows PC Probe II and AIDA64 values side-by-side on the same screen shot. That would let us compare the values measured "head-to-head".

Thank you for the feedback

We've just released the first AIDA64 beta that implements the Automatic Online Update feature: http://www.aida64.co...47r2mcblkz7fzip After upgrading to this new version, make sure to restart Windows to finalize the upgrade. Please note that the fully automated online update will only work if you have a valid AIDA64 license. With illegal license keys only the web download link will be offered, and the user will have to manually perform the upgrade by downloading the new ZIP package and extracting it to the existing AIDA64 installation folder.

Please upgrade to the latest beta version of AIDA64 Extreme Edition available at: http://www.aida64.com/downloads/aida64extremebuild1647r2mcblkz7fzip After upgrading to this new version, make sure to restart Windows to finalize the upgrade. Let me know how it works. Thanks, Fiery

Please upgrade to the latest beta version of AIDA64 Extreme Edition available at: http://www.aida64.com/downloads/aida64extremebuild1647r2mcblkz7fzip After upgrading to this new version, make sure to restart Windows to finalize the upgrade. Let me know how it works. Thanks, Fiery

Thank you for the feedback

Please try to disable Dell SMI sensor support in AIDA64 / main menu / File / Preferences / Stability, and restart AIDA64 to apply the changes. Let me know if it helps. Thanks, Fiery

It's already there Just enable the first 2 items in the Logging items list. They are named "Date" and "Time" Regards, Fiery